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Roger loses Rome final

Roger lost the final in Rome against Rafael Nadal 1-6, 3-6 in only 68 minutes and therefore our champ is still not able to add the Rome title to his long list of trophies.

The stats of the game tell two different stories – yes they tell you that Rafa Nadal won 6-1, 6-3 but they also say that Roger had 32 unforced errors to Rafa’s 8 during a match that lasted 1 hour 8 minutes. Another telling stat was that our Roger only won 55% of his first serves – down from 73% in his match against Simone. There was a glimmer of hope in the second set when Roger won 2 games in row to go from 1-5 to 3-5 with some brilliant shot making. Unfortunately in the last game our champ had two unforced errors and at 0-40 Nadal sent down a good serve to clinch the Championship. As ever Roger was gracious at the end complementing Rafa on the way he played.

Roger no matter the outcome, all game teaches us something! You're an inspiration to my tennis lessons, and a good person! Thank you. From Argentina..Thanks for all the tennis you give us in every tournament!

Roger watch Djokovic vs Nadal a lot or Soderling vs Nadal in 2009 french open until you get the idea to beat nadal! You have much more talents so you just need to get a good idea from djkovic and soderling to beat nadal!

Roger could still manage to beat nadal without ground stroke game added to his game plan before he got sick but if he added the ground stroke game plan, Roger would have dominated nadal on CLAY COURT. Roger doesn't try utillize and maximize all of his talent in the games against Nadal which try to limit and neutralize Roger's talent. If someone come up with the game plan that try to limit opponent's overwelming talents, you gotta come up with the correspondin plan which neuralizes his game plan.

Roger's problem against nadal is he lost all his strength from mono virus in 2008 so he lose ground stroke power game that give a short ball to nadal first. He cannot get back his strength that mono virus all took away but Roger must improve his ground stroke game in style wise since Roger didn't need ground stroke power game because he is a shot making genius.

Djoko already showed the much of answer to beat Nadal. Djokovic absorbed Nadal's style and strenth combining with his tennis style. Djokovic tried to improve on his backhand to beat nadal. Roger shots are much faster and accute. Roger need to add ground stroke fight to his game more combining with his genius style of shot making. It would be much easier to beat nadal than it is for Djokovic. that easy.